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Thomsen creating next generation of female leaders
Stephanie Thomsen joined the Walbec Group in 2019 following 14 years at an engineering consulting firm where she served municipal and transportation clients as a project engineer and project manager.
Langlais travels world before finding eventual home at Mortenson
Raised in a family of union ironworkers, Mel Langlais had an opportunity to live in different countries where her father built sites for Olympics competitions.
Dunn helps to foster inclusiveness in industry at CG Schmidt
Sarah Dunn began her career with CG Schmidt 12 years ago as the business development manager and, in 2019, became its first female executive.
Weitzel makes history at Building Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin
As the first female to be named executive director of the Building Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin, Jac Weitzel is a pioneer in the state’s construction industry.
Chapman follows dream of building things at GRAEF
As a child, Julie Chapman was always drawn to building things, whether that involved projects around the house with her father or Lego sets.
Potts seizes internship opportunities to launch her successful career
Sam Potts, who has had a lifelong interest in building things, started at JP Cullen as an intern in January 2013.
Cullen maintains family company’s dedication to training, workforce development
A fifth-generation owner of JP Cullen, Laura Cullen oversees its 500-plus employees’ training and development, recruitment and performance training.
McKenzie empowers everyone around her
Karen McKenzie has always loved designing and making things from nothing.
Markham leads by example at Riley Construction
Shortly after joining Riley Construction, Ashley Markham showed great initiative.
Daily Reporter honors its 2022 Women in Construction
The Daily Reporter honored 30 visionary women during its fifth annual Women in Construction awards and networking event on Thursday at Discovery World's Pavilion in downtown Milwaukee.
Shawchuk follows family’s path to engineer a fulfilling career
With a mom who was the first woman in the Connecticut plumber’s union and a dad who was a concrete finisher, Kelley Shawchuk knew early on that she wanted to work in construction.
Cartwright has common link for paving way for women in construction
Michele Cartwright had a journalism background but wanted a change, so she started working as a painting estimator and project manager for her uncle.
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- Milwaukee Tool plans 141,000-square-foot expansion in Menomonee Falls
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of June 1, 2026
- Milwaukee County investment helped bring Whitefish Bay development to life
- Milwaukee considers 12-story, 200-unit Harbor District apartment plans
- Wauwatosa students take next steps to ‘irreplaceable’ construction jobs
- Racine starts $130 million lead service line replacement project
- Federal court shelves lawsuit seeking to dismantle DBE program
- Oshkosh to buy City Center for $12.5 million
- Warehouse hoped to be hotel suffers fire in Milwaukee
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids from around Wisconsin
- Cree Lighting lays off 28 more workers as plant closes
- Unemployment remains at all-time lows as Wisconsin job market cools
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)